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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root?
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:10:31
Message-Id: 20030822081012.GB1152@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Too root or not to root? by Alec Berryman
1 On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:16:08PM -0500, Alec Berryman wrote:
2 > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
3 > i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package build. This is done
4 > by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so, which provides wrappers around
5 > getuid, chown, chmod, mknod, stat, ..., thereby creating a fake root
6 > environment.
7
8 Isn't the sandbox something similar?
9
10 Wkr,
11 Sven Vermeulen
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